Combined lighter and incense vaporizer



June 6,1950

J. T. WILLIAMS ET AL 2,510,449

COMBINED'LIGHTER AND INCENSE VAPORIZER Filed Feb. 6, 1946 INVENTORS JZ1/77e5 T MIN/121715 & Karl F/Yfese Patented June 6, i950 11,:

7 o 2,510,449 v a COMBINED LIGHTER AND INCENSE I VAPORIZER James T. Williams, Minneapolis, and Karl F. Y 7

Riese, St. Paul, Minn,,,assignors, by direct and mesne assignments, of'one-third to said Riese, one-third to Margaret Louise Williams, onefifteenth to James T. Williams, Jr., one-fifteenth to Robert H. Williams, one-fifteenth to Margaret Louise Lindstroth, one-fifteenth to George J. Williams, and one-fifteenth to Lawrence David Williams Application February 6, 1946, Serial No. 645,769

6 Claims.

"Our invention relates to a combined lighter and incense vaporizer and has for its object to provide a spark ignition lighter for cigarettes, cigars and the like adapted to be rested upon a table or other surface, in combination with means associated with the lighter forvaporizing and expelling into the atmosphere at desired quantity of incense vapor when the lighter is ignited.

1 As manufactured and used heretofore, cigarette lighters have generally been pocket pieces carried by an individual on the person and used manually from time to time whenever the lighting of a cigarette, cigar or the like is called for. But often there is need of a cigarette lighter when the garment in which the pocket lighter is carried is not on the person at places such as in toilet rooms or the like, or when, in gatherings, as at a dinner table, at a card table and the like, it would be convenient and desirable to have a lighter rested upon the surface of a stand or table in convenient position for general use.

It is also true that under such conditions of use the air frequently will be permeated with unpleasant odors. Even the odors of certain foods and of stale cigarette smoke at card parties and the like become offensive at times.

We have discovered a simple and effective means of providing a lighter to be positioned upon a table top or other surface, in combination with means rendered active by igniting the lighter flame such that at the time such lighter flame is ignited a puff of incense vapor may be projected into the room.

. It is a principal object of our invention therefore to provide a lighter for cigarettes, cigars and the like, of generally standard construction wherein the flame .is ignited by a friction spark usually generated by lifting the snuffer cap, in combination with means adjacent and subject to the heat of said flame, which means may have automatically supplied thereto an incense fluid, said fluid being turned to vapor by the heat of the flame and said vapor being ejected or puffed into the room as desired when the lighter flame is ignited.

- It is a further object of our invention to provide a casing wherein are mounted a pair of members forming cylindrical chambers with caps threaded into the lower ends thereof for the purpose of filling the chambers, said members being secured to and held within the casing, one of them holding lighting fluid and the other incense fluid, to be introduced into the chambers through the cap openings, and the caps forming a leg support for the entire mechanism.

Itis a further object of our invention to provide a tube'extending into the incense liquid within one of the cylindrical chambers, said tube having either a substantially capillary bore or a larger bore extending through it and'having a part thereof coiled in a'position adjacent and so as to receive-the heat of the lighter flame, together with an extension-of the tube out of the casing, sowhen the coil is heated by the lighter flame the incense liquid therein will vaporize and puff out as incense vapor.

The full objects and advantages of our invention will apepar in connection with the detailed description thereof to be given in the following specification, and the novelfeatures by which the aforesaid useful and advantageous results are secured will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

' In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a lighter incense vaporizer embodying the features ofour inven-' tion;

Fig. 2 isa longitudinal sectional view of the same, with the screw caps out of section, taken 'on line "2-2 of Fig. 1. As illustrated an outer casing l0, preferably of oval shape, is provided. Within this casing are a pair of cylindrical containers H and I2 which are secured together at their centers by a connector strip l3. The casing I2 is secured by a connector strip I4 to the end wall l5 of the casing I0, and the cylinder II is secured by a strip It to a vertical tube I! which is fastened along its sides to the other'end portions l8 and 19 of the casing l0.

The lower end of cylinder wall I I comes to the bottom of casing l0 as indicated at 20. The lower end of casing H is internally threaded as indicated at 2| and receives a threaded screw cap 22 which when in position makes a sealing union at 23, thus closing leak-tight a chamber 24 within cylinder II. p I Similarly cylindrical member I2 has an internally threaded lower portion 25 which receives a'threaded screw cap 26. The screw cap 26 like the screw cap 22 is adapted to close the chamber 21 within cylindrical member l2 in a lea proof manner.

The chamber 24 is adapted to be filled with an inflammable and volatile liquid. This is accomplished by inverting the casing, removing the screw cap '22 and pouring the liquid into the chamber, thereafter setting the screw cap 22 in a leak proof manner upon the lower end of cylinder ll at23. 7

Likewise the chamber 21 will be filled with incense liquidin exactly the same rnannergby first inverting theentire apparatus and thereafter -removing the screw cap and pouring the liquid in through the opening into chamber 21 thus made.'

When the two screw caps 22 and :26 are e861;

in sealing position their respective faces 28 and,

28 fall in a common horizontal plane, These surfaces 28 and 29 provide an extensive support for h in wh n set p an surifacc such as the surface of a dining table, a .card table, .or surfaces of fixtures in a toilet.

Within the cham 4 is a wickins e39, which is extended through a small opening 3| :in the top of the cone-like extension-'32 from the centerof a closure plate 33. Plate 33' seals the upper end of chamber 24 at a point 34 some distance below the upper edge 35 of the cylindrical member ll, thus leaving an open-topped chamber 36 within the portion 31 of cylindrical member ll. Chamberiiii .isopen atitsitopand extendsabove theplate r33. lhe...cy1indrical wall of chamber 35 is provi ed with a .niultiplicity of apertures 38 throughou itscxtcnt, f o furnish adequate inlet or airztothelighter-flame., I an almost cylindrical shufrsr-c ap 39isimountcd on an arm All which .isrivotally mounted to oscillateon a short sha t M. Thesnufferoap 38 at its lower-portion makes .aagas tigh union with the coni al mem er .32 which :holds z helend of the wicking 30, so when a flame is burning, as shown in Fig. 2. it is only nec ssary :toiswing-the arm .40 and thenuffer cap 3.9 into position so the shutter cap-en ages t e onical x.tension 3.2 to extinguishthe filamelhe flame is ignited in a welllsnownway when the arm .40 and its snuifercap thereon is pulled up to vertical position as shown in Fig. 2. this occurs a friction disk 42 engages. a sparkmaker 43 and throws parks upon the nd of the wicking 39, whereby the vola le iiquicl brought up by capillary action and escaping a inflamm ble vapor therefrom is i nited,

The spark-maker A3 is pressed up against the friction disk 42 with sufficient force to "insure enerating sparks .by means of .a sprin 44 mo nted :Within the tube :II and chsicned y a screw cap :45 hr aded in o the-lower end oisaid tube.

What may be substantiallya capillary-tube '46.. or, asshowma largertube-so. extends toa point .41 .near :the bottom .orohamber pr erab y throughamassof cot onindioated at 48,, whi h immersedinthe incense liquid in chamber .21

The tube 46 is formed to extend irom its open T b t om and A17 into apooil .formedand pos tion d .to be close to :theflame 5.0 from the end i wickin 30. The tube .551s extended frorntthe coil. #9 throu h an ex ension :to ts open end .52 outside of the end wall of zthecasui 10.

A can or .cover. membersia is-secured to --.the upper edge of the casing Ill. This goyer meme tends om its ed e a e! a he edge of the open-.t pp d. .fian1e chamber 3.6 @to the point where its nd 1.5.5 :is sl ht y b yond the end '52 oiztopexten ionfil- In use the; articleisgestedupona-tableor other surface in convenient position to be used byohc individua or ny one of :a gr poisindividuals. In .-,rn.al .n suc use a person Wishin to Jig-ht a cigarett ciga o the like will swing he arm :40 an snu e ap 3. rom the posit on sealing :the end of W ki g .39 to the positi n shownin :El g. .2. This, in .a .-kh own manner, will cause sparks :to

fly from the sparking member 43 to the area- 4 above the upper end of wicking 30, which will ca se th i z d l qu d at that point to ignite and produce the flame 50.

While the person is using the flame to ignite his 7 cigarette or cigar the heat of the flame is trans- ;mitted ;to the coil 49, preferably formed of cop- :per or other metal having high heat conductivity.

The coil, if the opening through tube 46 is small enough for capillary action, may in that manner befilled with incense liquid. If the opening in the coil in a desired form of the invention is too large to permit the incense liquid to go into the coil bycapillary action, the coil may be filled :with the incense liquid very effectively by simply tipping the container so as to permit the liquid to flow into the coil. This is possible because the chamber 221 is entirely sealed and the liquid may flow into and through the tube 46 through apertures 56 therein.

Indeed normally, in holding the lighter in the hand to li ht a ci aret e, it will be ipped so fillin will oc ur au o atically. The form of the inventionassh wn n icQisPerhaps best suited to us :the t pping m thod to get the incense liquid into the oil 46.

Where -:capi1lary;action i o b empl yed the chambe :2? may e xtended n arer t the top. as indicated in dotted lineseat 51. .As l ng as there is any substantialamotm of liquid in the chamber 21, the cotton 48 by capill y a ion will conve the liquid to the-apertures 56 and cause he delive y hereof to the inside of tube 46 for it :to be conveyed therein by capillary action withinthetubeof thevcoilv49.

in whatever mann r the in ense liq d from chamber :2? may b onveyed into the coil .43. theheat of the flame will cause it to turn to gas Will be thrown out. in apuff from the end 5 of u ex ension 15L It follows that generally when a ci arette or cigar is light d a puff of incense vapor :is driven into :the room, -.thus overridin and killing any unpleasant odors whi h x s ja t at time and giving a continuou pl asantly sc nt d atmo phere to br athe.-

i lhs advanta es of our inyenti.on will, it is submitted. quite clearly app ar iromvthe foregoin descripti n th reof- Theprimar advantage is of course that a lighter is provided :which may set :upon any t ble, stand or su able supportin sur ce. in c mbinati n with means such that Whenever the lighter is ignited to light acigarette, cigar or thelike, a puff of incense :vapor may be generated and projcctedintouthe room. The result, .of course, that, at frequent intervals and usually with no consciousintent orzeffort on the partiof any individual using .the lighter, incense vapor -'is ejected into "the :room so :that the pleasant odors of the incense .Will override ;unpleasant odors from stale .tobacco smoke, foods, in .tcilets andthe like.

We claim:

1. In combination with a lighter having a holder for inflammable fluid and a wick for conveying the .fluid to an ignition (point, and means for igniting and extinguishing a flame at that point. a holder for incense liquid, .a tube extending irom i fi liquid therein .for conveying said incense liquid to near said i nition point where it Will :be subiect'to the :heatof the lighter flame when it is burnin whereb when said flame ignited said incense liquid will be vaporized and the y por-eieoted into the :space .where thelightor is being :used.

:2. In combination. with a "lighter having a holder for inflammable fluidanda wick forcarrying the fluid to an ignition point, and means for lighting the flame at that point, a sealed chamber for containing incense liquid, a tube open at both ends extendin from said chamber to a region normally reached by the lighter flame when it is burning and then extending beyond said region, said tube being constructed and positioned to present an extended portion of its length in said region and to hold therein incense liquid supplied from said chamber.

3. In combination with a lighter having a holder for inflammable fluid and a Wick for carrying the fluid to an ignition point and means for igniting a flame at that point, a sealed chamber for containing incense liquid, a tube extending from said chamber to a region normally reached by the lighter flame when it is burning, said tube formed into a, coil in said region and having an extension for carrying incense vapor from the coil to the exterior of said chamber, whereby when said flame is ignited the incense liquid in the coil will be vaporized and the vapor ejected into the space where the lighter is being used.

4. In combination with a lighter having a holder for inflammable fluid and 'a wick for carrying the fluid to an ignition point and means for igniting a flame at that point, a sealed chamber for containing incense liquid, a tube extending from said chamber and being formed into a coil located in the region of the lighter flame when it is burning, said tube having an open. end

extended beyond said coil for carrying incense vapor from the coil and having a substantially capillary bore through the tube, whereby incense liquid will be carried by capillary action into the coil and when said flame is ignited the incense liquid in the coil will be vaporized and the vapor ejected from said open end into the space where the lighter is being used.

5. In combination with a lighter having a holder for inflammable fluid and a wick for conveying the fluid to an ignition point and means for igniting a flame at that point, a sealed chamber for containing incense liquid, a tube extending from said [chamber and being formed into a coil located in the region of and subject to being heated by the lighter flame when it is burning, said tube being extended beyond said coil and having an open end for carrying incense vapor from the coil and being of a size to permit ready flow of liquid from the chamber to the coil when the device is tipped to permit gravity flow, whereby when said chamber has been tipped and thereafter said flame is ignited incense liquid in the coil will be vaporized and the vapor ejected into the place where the lighter is being used.

6. In combination with a lighter having a holder for inflammable fluid and a wick for conveying the fluid therefrom to an ignition point, said lighter including a casing and a first cylinder secured within the casing having a chamber forming the holder, a second cylinder secured within the casing having a chamber for holding incense liquid, said cylinders extending to the bottom of the casing and being of a diameter to substantially flll the casing along one dimension, screw caps closing the ends of the respective cylinders and of a diameter greater than that of the cylinders forming together a support of considerable area for the casing, an open ended tubular member extending into the second chamber and into the incense liquid therein and having a coil in the region of the flame when it is burning and an extension going to the outside of the casing, said tubular member being arranged to convey incense liquid from the second chamber to the coil, whereby when the flame is ignited the incense liquid in said coil will be vaporized and incense vapor will be ejected outside the casing.

JAMES T. WILLIAMS. KARL F. RIESE.

No references cited. 

